Associate prof in British women’s history & gender history, cultural & social 18-19thC; deadline 15/05, salary £52k-70k, Mansfield College, Oxford mansfield.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/tuto…

Who can tell me more about this culture of phased retirement - referred to as 'green cards' or 'old boy's link' - on the railways? (ref is in Phillipson et al, Social Policy & Society, 2019)

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Helen McCarthy I've enjoyed revisiting yr 2014 book 'Women Of The World, the Rise of the Female #Diplomat '.
Veronica Sutherland featured in the Pioneers chapter, one of my 1st bosses. A role model, she was the 1st married ♀️ ambassador. The marriage bar only lifted in 1973.

In 1949 Royal Commission on Population reported reasons for falling birthrate. Complex picture but standout factors: women not wanting repeated pregnancy & endless housework & parents wanting better life chances for kids they did have. Less may have changed than we assume.

Great to see Our NHS on sale at the ice-cream stand ⁦National Theatre⁩ for tonight’s performance of #Nye ⁦Andrew Seaton⁩

Am teaching a class on the history of Covid 19 tomorrow & we're discussing government sources. Can anyone (maybe Institute for Government?) tell me: why would some names of SAGE meeting attendees be redacted from the published minutes? (Personal safety concerns?)

On Tuesday 19 March join us and a panel of experts to reflect on the experiences of women MPs as told to our #OralHistory project. #WHM

Find out more about the event and sign up for a place by clicking below:
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My week has been filled by men in their forties distraught and destroyed by the ending of One Day (having not read the book).

This looks great

My essay on Sarah Ditum's Toxic, the Britney Spears memoir and Noughties sexual culture is free to read on my Substack (a new venture for me 😬) helenmccarthy.substack.com/p/sex-feminism…

If you want to know more about why experiences of work & retirement have been, and remain, profoundly gendered in Britain, come to my talk: in-person/online on 26th Feb CambridgeGender @ bsky.social
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Read my review of Women and the Miners Strike, 1984-5 by Natalie Thomlinson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, a major addition to the scholarship on class, gender and politics in 20th-century Britain tandfonline.com/eprint/S9FUZQS…

starting sept 2024 - a PhD project, collaboratively supervised by me and Juliano Fiori at Save the Children UK, on 'Humanitarian NGOs and Trade Unions: a history of conflict and collaboration' - seeking applicants. please share! wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects-o… (scroll down for details)

Though remembered as the era of the housewife, momentous change in the status of women began in the 1950s.

🔓 This 2020 article by Helen McCarthy is still free to read at buff.ly/3SftA4B

I read this book over the break and it is excellent and this event will be equally so:

🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity 🚨

Exploring the Professional and Personal Lives of Post-War Black Nurses in Britain with Royal College of Nursing Libraries at School of History, Queen Mary University of London with my amazing supervisor Dr Leslie James.

Happy to answer any questions about doing a PhD at QM or applications in general☺️

Mr Bates versus the Post Office includes a crowded courtroom scene dated April 2021 - when UK was in lockdown. Presumably it took place online but writers decided that wouldn’t work dramatically. It felt like a weird erasure, as though viewers were being enlisted to forget.